It isn’t likely — unless Gov. Rick Perry jumps in the ring and clinches the Republican nomination, a new poll from the Public Policy Polling group found.

In the poll’s match-ups, President Barack Obama loses Texas to every notable Republican except Perry and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. If the ballot came down to Perry and Obama, 47 percent of poll respondents said they would vote for Obama. Forty-five percent said they would cast a ballot for Perry.

The most elected Republican in the poll? Mitt Romney.

The poll found that Obama would garner 42 percent of the Texas vote to 50 percent for the former Massachusetts governor. The president trailed Texas Rep. Ron Paul, R-Lake Jackson, by 5 percentage points, 40 percent to 45 percent.

Obama would beat out Palin for the state with 46 percent of respondents casting a ballot for his second term and 44 percent voting for Palin.

What does this all mean? Well, not much. Most of the races above are statistically so close that with the poll’s margin of error, the winners in most of the hypothetical match-ups could switch.

The Democratic polling firm said the poll is a sign of weak support in Texas for a 2012 bid for Perry based on respondent data. That could be true. It could also mean that Texans don’t want to lose their long-serving governor.

The poll surveyed 795 Texas voters from June 25 to the 27 and has a margin of error of +/-3.5 percentage points.

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